eldepholo – 2022-06-06:

4 out of 5

Café-Café a deliciously brewed morning caffeinated fragrance for summer. Sadly this fragrance is hard-to-find and it has been discontinued but fear not, it is sold through eBay and in warehouses discount fragrance stores. I found this beauty in a rummage sale in my neighborhood so folks it’s out there. It’s a fruity gourmand vanilla fragrance, it’s a mature lady’s perfume but it’s sweet and inviting, not intimidating, approachable, friendly and drinkable hence the café moniker. Perfect to wear with a casual white blouse and khaki shorts, sunglasses, and summer wear, or for wearing to the beach, it’s leisurely, laid-back, and feminine. I wear this when I go out to do mundane things like grocery shopping, school meetings, lunch with girlfriends and going with my youngest son from soccer games. I AM a soccer mom.
Starts off fruity, in the vein of fruity florals from the 80′ or 90’s. Byblos comes to mind. There’s a ripe and juicy peach like a peach juice, exactly like a peach flavored Kern’s nectar drink. Nothing caffeinated about it as it opens but you have to wait. The citruses are noticeable and they include notes of bergamot orange and lemon juice. There’s a pear and passion fruit that instantly reminds me of fruit shampoo or fruity hairspray. The citrus is there to lend a freshness and zest but the peach is dominant.
Later, the florals come through in a vague bouquet of rosemary, white lilies or rather lily of the valley bulbs, tuberose, jasmine, iris and rose. These florals are very traditional and very womanly in their aroma, classic floral heart notes. The iris is the big player here. The powder note that comes from the iris is working it’s magic but I don’t think it’s like any other iris based fragrance I have encountered before. It’s not orris root but more like a vanilla flower or vanilla scented powder note. The dainty rose is also very distinctive and the tuberose which comes off as creamy, buttery. In fact at one point the tuberose is the gourmand note as so many tuberose frags are in the “edible” category. Because of the three notes of lily of the valley, jasmine and tuberose, plus a rose that is a white rose, this can be called a white floral heart.
Lastly, the dry notes emerge as the fragrance has settled. There are little green notes courtesy of patchouli leaf, woodsy notes via the sandalwood, and some musk but it is the caramel and vanilla that are the glue that hold this thing together. Then you smell the coffee scent. Smells just like vanilla coffee or cappuccino with a caramelized frothy top. A delicious caramel coffee. But it is not a bakery shop scent nor a dessert in the style of today’s celebrity scents that are gourmands like off the top of my head Jessica Simpson Fancy. So if you are sick and tired of celebrity scents of cotton candy and long for a mature gourmand scent check this out.
This is a mature gourmand with a coffee that can also be appreciated by wearers of coffee notes in such frags as Black Opium or Lancôme La Nuit Tresor. This starts off as a fruity floral and concludes as a vanilla-caramel coffee, warmed up with that musk and a tad spicy. It’s a delicate scent and doesn’t really project outwardly that much but it has decent staying power. Café can be worn to the office or to your place of employment. The bottle as pictured is very charming – the frosted yellow glass bottle. A pretty light fruity coffee and vanilla scent to satisfy any vanilla lover.

arefjew.sergey – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

This a review for Café-Café by Café Parfum/Cofinluxe, Eau de Perfume.
This is a sweet perfume. But is a rather unique sort of sweet: neither the sugary sweet we find in gourmand fragrances, nor the cloying sweet we find in strong floral juices. I can only describe Café-Café as a mature fruity perfume.
The first notes are a bit misleading; they strike me as somewhat artificial and plastic-ish, probably due to the citrus. A bit like Cacharel’s Eden, but in a completely different way because Café-Café is warm and alive where Eden is cold and robotic. Then the scent settles on the skin and I am immediately hit by billowy, luscious waves of fruit. Personally, I cannot separate the scent of each individual fruit; for me it’s like being in the middle of a tropical orchard with many different types of fruits ripening around me. It’s rich and DELICIOUS – the first times I wore this perfume it actually made me salivate!
At the dry down, the intensity of the fruits lessens a bit. The powdery presence of iris and rose begins to emerge, together with the base notes, mainly musk and patchouli. The fruity notes never disappear, but as the scent unfolds on the skin they interact with the other ingredients, sometimes emphasising the white flowers, and other times hinting delicately at the caramel and vanilla duo. Thankfully, it never develops into that syrupy cupcake, “little girl” sweetness that has become omnipresent since Mugler’s Angel came into existence. This is a grown up woman sweetness.
Café-Café has a very good longevity on my skin. In fact, the perfume even feels a bit oily when I first apply it. The projection is also good. The scent often catches me by surprise as I move – and what a pleasant surprise it is!
And perhaps one of the most commendable qualities of this perfume is its price. It is very affordable without being cheap or having a poor quality. While Café-Café will hardly turn anyone’s olfactory world upside down, it is still a great perfume.

knut – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

Café is not a coffee scent, god dammit. But it’s delicious. It starts with citrusy notes and a succulent sweet peach. I found it to be mostly peach scented as it begins. The flowers are the real stars of this show. I smelled tuberose, which shows up in so many of my favorite perfumes. There is rosemary, rose, lily of the valley, iris, and jasmine. The flowers are fragrant and you can smell them for a long time. This was on me all day. There is a delicious caramel in this perfume. I found it to be more like the caramel in coffee. A ha, I said to myself, found the café. This smells more like when you’re inside a café, doesn’t have to be a French café in Paris, could be any coffee house including Starbucks, and you get whiffs of the aroma of other coffees that you’re not drinking from across other tables. This is a gorgeous fruity gourmand. The caramel was really big and the vanilla too. Sweet vanilla. Feminine and not girly, sophisticated and sweet. Perfect for dates, preferably first dates, romantic evenings at home or dinner in restaurants. Very much a spring/summer scent, just lovely peach and caramel and vanilla. Love it.

grihon93 – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

This is a delicious fruity floral caramel coffee fragrance. It makes me want to relax either at home and read a book or go to a café and read a book there, or attempt to write one for myself. This is a sweet scent but it’s a grown up kind of sweetness, not candy sweet. The flowers in it could turn into powder or shampoo but the foundation of musk and patchouli keep the flower scents tethered and from being too airy. The opening is fruity with dominant peach and passion fruit. The flowers, like I said, are a nice touch, very floral but not too sweet and not too airy. I smell jasmine and iris the most. The caramel stands out among the base notes but there is just enough musk as well. It’s either my nose playing tricks on me or the name of the fragrance but I could swear there is either coffee or cacao chocolate note in this fragrance. This smells like rich dark chocolate and caffeine in a seductive sultry harmony. This is easily a unisex scent because of the musk, and on the right woman would evoke a smart but sexy French girl who spends all day in the cafes of Montmartre or Montparnasse where she hangs out with bereted beat niks and poets, philosophers and artists. This is a very very French fragrance. Je l’aime pour toujours.

Viliseomippic – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

This was sold to me as “Cafe” not “Cafe-Cafe” so when I first tried it on I was horribly disappointed!! It immediately went into my “get rid of it” box. Then for some reason today I looked at the bottle again. It didn’t look like ANY Cafe bottle that I had ever seen and it sure did not smell like Opium, which I have read is how Cafe smells.
Looking at all the Cafe Parfums I saw it! I was sent the wrong thing so many months ago! It has been so long that I don’t even remember from whom it was purchased. I keep hoping for the “change” that so many reviewers have mentioned. Nothing so far . . .

DAlekS – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

This fragrance is very down to earth and lies heavy at first but at the end of the day you might find yourself looking for traces of it in your hair. I like the almost bitter sweetness that is the first heavy note, but then it lightens down quickly and then just a faint hint of a delectable dessert lingers. I couldn’t care less for the sweet tropical perfumes out there, but this intense cloud of harvest spice + coffee-ish notes is just what I want for Autumn trench coat weather.

sanek 0527 – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

Not too pleasant mix of the passion fruit note with the sandalwood note, sweetened by the caramel note.
I don’t like this fragrance.

vadimmolchanov – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

This one brings back memories ahh my mom bought it for me when I was 12 or so. At first I didn’t like it so much, but then it started to grow on me. It would be a Like, but since it reminds me of when I was a child I would classify it as Love for me 🙂

Semera 775 – 2022-06-06:

4 out of 5

It’s an interesting smell; first a citrusy, musky, kind of spicy smell. Then it leaves a powdery, smoky (instead of cigarette), kind of odd smell. I like unique frags, so although not a favorite I like it.

ssn1kerss – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

This gives a strong, yet watery white-floral hit — I smell the jasmine most of all. And then comes a sexy hint of stale cigarette smoke, like what you might sniff on your friends’ shirt on the way home from a night of partying. My mom smelled this and thought she could discern a coffee-like note, but nothing cigarette-ish: however, I think it’s not so much coffee as the slightest hint of chocolate.

yakov.sh – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

This is a interesting fragrance. Now I’m felling more the fresh floral-musky bouquet than the peach and other fruits. It’s getting better in my concept. Maybe not just a basic fragrance but a all-time fragrance which can be classy sometimes. Good price

niki197722 – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

Citrus with a kick – a fancy, earthy little kick. Delightfully un-modern, but not stodgy or stale.
I also agree with boardbat’s review. And I don’t smell cigarettes at all, and it doesn’t smell particularly cheap either, as some reviewers have said. IMO it’s just a nice little fruity, slightly musky, floral with a nice citrus opening.

tulenj – 2022-06-06:

4 out of 5

I like it. Cheapo basic fragrance, really flexile. The peach appears so much and make it lovely with all the flowers in the bouquet.
Sillage: Moderate/Good
Longevity: Good (5h+)

rfcgth – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

i love this. its so sweet and light. i don’t get any cigarette or smoke scent in this at all. its just a lovely juicy floral and i adore wearing it. a great day scent, not super long lasting, but still quite nice.

rus_1973 – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

This is the second fume I got, hmm, maybe on my 11th birthday. If I don’t think it in a nostalgic way, the scent is nice, but nothing special. Daytime wear only.

Matvealeksandr – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

I own it for at least 10 years and I didn’ t like it. I spray it sometimes to scent a room. But these days it happened to me I like it…
Nevertheless many ingredents it seems simple, adorable, for every day use.

rublev_brend – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

I was kind of wondering why this didn’t have more of a coffee scent to it as the name would imply-I love the scent of sweet coffee beans but this perfume did not do that. Its just soft and sweet. A delicate light smell for those who want something very light.

Дмитрий-ПК – 2022-06-06:

5 out of 5

I have the 100ml and I don´t like it very much. It smells synthetic – the moment I spray it on me it feels quite strong and then it turns into a smell of flowers that are not natural, a reproduction, very synthetic, in my opinion.

birukof2006 – 2022-06-06:

4 out of 5

I like it a lot. But I never found anyone that have liked of this one. Smells like real life, I guess.

jlw723Bessinepome – 2022-06-06:

3 out of 5

Smells like cheap perfumes mixed with the smoke of cheap cigarettes.
But it’s interesting 🙂
I can see a provocative woman in a skimpy dress sitting in a flamboyant pose by a small round table in the street, smoking a cigarette …
I think Cafe-Cafe may be seductive !